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Venture into Greenview & Live your Adventure

WHY EXPLORE OUR MEADOWS TO MOUNTAINS!

Greenview can accommodate all visitors, even those looking for a quieter adventure. The region features six golf courses (Grande Cache, Greenview, Gunby Ranch, Grovedale, Silver Birch & Valleyview). Play them all to experience a variety of elevations, scenery, and levels of difficulty.

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Grande Cache features a unique Labyrinth Park, a walking meditation park with a 360 degree mountain-view. This medieval-style labyrinth is guaranteed to quiet your mind.

edges and amazing mountain views. Located a short drive and easy hike from Grande Cache.

Greenview’s vast area boasts amazing fishing and hunting opportunities. Catch walleye, whitefish, northern pike, and rainbow trout. Catch and release bull trout, Arctic grayling, walleye, pike, and Rocky Mountain whitefish. You are sure to find something in all our lakes, rivers, and creeks. Both stocked with rainbow trout, the Grovedale Fish Pond, located 30 km south of Grande Prairie allows for seasonal enjoyment and Swan Lake, near Ridge Valley provides year-round fishing.

Greenview has a long hunting season, with large wildlife with big racks/horns and lots of body mass. Find moose, elk, deer, bear, and mountain sheep throughout the region.

Greenview is home to more than 30 campgrounds, 17 day-use areas, and numerous Provincial Parks throughout the region. Offering a diverse range of camping experiences, you are sure to find your next vacation spot near by!

Abundant lakes, rivers, and creeks wind their way through Greenview. You can find over 20 boat launches giving you access to many of the lakes within the region to enjoy boating, water sports, fishing and swimming.

Canoe, kayak, and raft the white waters on the crazy rivers in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Guided river tours are available.

Within the Kakwa Wildland Provincial Park, the Kakwa River cascades 30 metres over Kakwa Falls, rushes through a 4 km canyon, then plunges over a second set of falls, making this the largest waterfall in Alberta. Smaller waterfalls, including the popular Eaton Falls, Muskeg Falls, and Twin Falls are located in the Grande Cache area.

A popular attraction and must see spot in the region is Sulphur Gates. This spectacular viewpoint overlooks the confluence of the Smoky and Sulphur Rivers, showcasing dramatic cliff

Connect with locals! Visit the tourism and heritage centres, museums, and check out regional events. Open seasonally, the Valleyview Visitor & Information Centre is a great stop to learn more about your visit along Highway 43 and area. Valleyview hosts an annual fair and rodeo every summer featuring great entertainment for all who attend.

The DeBolt and District Pioneer Museum offers a collection of heritage buildings. They hold an annual Heritage Festival each August featuring a parade, fair, and activities. Make sure to stop at the Crooked Creek General Store along the way. They offer local products, and are famous for the best donuts and cinnamon buns around! The Pioneers of Grovedale Area Museum promotes the history of the area and celebrates the perseverance and hard work of its pioneers.

The Grande Cache Tourism & Interpretive Centre showcases the history of the area through exhibits and displays featuring ice age artifacts, dinosaur tracks, Aboriginal heritage and fur trading. Open year-round, the centre also has an outdoor interpretive park. Grande Cache hosts the annual Canadian Death Race every August long weekend, bringing in racers and visitors from all over the world, as elite runners tackle 125 km of rugged mountain terrain within 24 hours.

The Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, Aseniwuche Winewak Nation, and Mountain Metis are all within Greenview’s borders, contributing to our strong cultural background. Exploring our historical stories is an adventure on its own.

Forests and meadows throughout Greenview offer visitors the opportunity to catch a glimpse of dear, elk, moose, eagles, coyotes, black bear and grizzly. And if you are lucky, you might just see a caribou along highway 40’s Caribou Crossing, or perhaps a magnificent cougar roaming the trees.

Greenview is your raw and rugged neighbour offering outstanding adventures. Located only a two-hour drive south of Grande Prairie along Hwy 40 are spectacular panoramic vistas of the Canadian Rockies. This quiet, yet amazing place offers endless opportunities for the outdoor enthusiast to enjoy mountain peaks, white water and lakes, horseback riding, hiking, mountain biking, hunting, camping, and more.

The Nitehawk Adventure Park, just a short drive from Grande Prairie, has an impressive ski and snowboard hill, luge track, and tube park for you and your family to enjoy. Enjoy cross-country skiing and snowshoeing throughout the region from meadows to mountains. Find groomed trails, or make your own.

Greenview’s varying terrain and abundant snow also provides a snow haven for snowmobile enthusiasts. Try your luck ice fishing on one of our many lakes, and if you are really adventurous (and experienced), there are even areas north of Grande Cache for ice climbing.

Just south and east of Grande Prairie, you will find a network of trails and wilderness perfect for hiking, all terrain vehicles and snowmobiling, fishing, hunting, camping and down-hill skiing. Travel further down Hwy 43 and enjoy a diverse landscape ripe with agritourism, fishing, hunting, all terrain vehicles and snowmobiling, camping, and much more!

Town Of Fox Creek

A Citizen focused vibrant sustainable community, embracing diversified partnerships and building upon small town family values. Fox Creek is a citizen-focused vibrant and sustainable community, embracing diversified economic partnerships and prides itself on small-town family values. The Municipality of Fox Creek is a vibrant and bustling hotbed of economic activity in the heart of the Duvernay. Known mainly for its bountiful wilderness, Fox Creek showcases the very best of the surrounding forests, lakes and wildlife, making it the perfect location for enjoying the outdoors. Fox Creek combines a serene wilderness experience, with small-town hospitality, first-class amenities, and a reliable service centre for the active oil and gas industry surrounding the community. Fox Creek is a great place to call home.

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• Community Hall

• Fox Creek Curling Rink

• Fox Creek Fitness Centre

• Fox Creek Bike Park

• Lions Park / Splash Park

• Marnevic Memorial Park

• COPS Playground

• RV Campground

• Smoke Lake Campground

• Iosegun Lake Campground

• Simonette River

• Waskahigan River

SLED THE ALBERTA GOLDEN TRIANGLE #SLEDTHETRIANGLE

The Golden Triangle is a snowmobiler’s dream, with sledding trails connecting Whitecourt, Fox Creek and Swan Hills in a 350-kilometre circuit you can ride over one or several days. #sledthetriangle

Picture this: you swing your leg over the saddle of your sled, rev the throttle and fly down the trail through northern Alberta boreal forest.

Before you, choices are laid out for either single or multi-day rides via the Golden Triangle and club maintained trails beyond.

ALBERTA’S GOLDEN TRIANGLE SLEDDING EXPERIENCE

What makes The Golden Triangle sledding golden? Quite simply, the trail system is huge, with all you need to make your trip epic: 350 kilometre loop Whitecourt

• Lakes, sledding hills and meadows beyond

• Warming huts, cabins, shelters and fire areas

• Single or multi-day trip options

Singe day or multi-day sled trips

Snowmobilers can plan day trips from any of the three municipalities or extend the pleasure with overnight stays in hotels accessible right from the

The Town of Valleyview, also known as the “Portal to the Peace”, is a diversified regional service centre who ably supports its local residents and businesses as well as that of its surrounding area including medical & emergency services including an airport with a 3,400 paved runway & helipad, tourism & recreation events, quality educational & cultural options, and private enterprises. With a combined population and trading area of nearly 8,000 inhabitants, the Town of Valleyview is strategically located at important primary highway crossroads which lead north and south in three distinct directions – Hwy 49 and the Mackenzie Highway, will take you north to the communities of Peace River, High Level and further into the Northwest Territories; Hwy 43 north and the Alaska Highway, will lead you to the City of Grande Prairie and into northeastern British Columbia, the Yukon and Alaska; and, Hwy 43 south, which ventures those to central Alberta and beyond.

The Town of Valleyview – a diverse and inclusive service, supply, and retail centre – offers all the urban amenities one needs for a healthy and happy lifestyle while retaining a hospitable, small-town atmosphere. The community boasts a state-ofthe-art family-friendly recreation & fitness multiplex facility, hockey & curling arenas, a public library & performing arts center, an outdoor splash park & skatepark, playgrounds, parks & trails, tennis courts, upgraded baseball diamonds, volleyball play areas, horseshoe pits and an off-leash dog park are just some of the amenities enjoyed by residents and visitors alike – opportunities for all ages and all seasons. An in-Town RV Park with trout pond is also available for visitors to access their choice of yearly summer event lineups including the Valleyview and District Agricultural Society’s Annual Fair and Rodeo which is held each August and promises three days of excitement and diverse entertainment, a festive Main Street Fair complete with amusement rides, as well as Canada Day celebrations highlighted by a fireworks show that is second to none. For the winter enthusiasts, the Town of Valleyview also has a dynamic hockey league housed by a large, local arena adjacent to the very active Red Willow Curling Club. Though there’s much to see and do right within the scenic Town of Valleyview however, you cannot go too far from town without coming across excellent camping choices, fishing, horseback riding, golfing and boating opportunities, and for the naturalists, an abundance of birds, flowers and wildlife abound. The Town of Valleyview boasts doorstep access to two picturesque Provincial Parks: Williamson (60 campsites, day-use area, boat launch) and Young’s Point (124 campsites, boat launch, hiking trails, playgrounds, showers, swimming area). For the golfing devotee, there are two 9-hole golf courses located within minutes for the Town of Valleyview: Riverside Golf (15 minutes south) and Greenview Golf (20 minutes west). For the gun/hunter enthusiast, the Valleyview and District Gun Club boasts 200 members who utilize an outdoor gun range 11 minutes east of the town for sporting rifle, black powder, pistol, archery, and shotgun shooting events (this site also supports a clubhouse with gazebo and firepit, hosts annual public shooting events and hunter education training). And, for the winter sports specialists, crosscountry skiing, snowmobiling trails, and the affordable Little Smoky Ski Hill and Tube Park can keep people busy and entertained within a 30-minute driving-radius from the Town of Valleyview.

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